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...needs to be open to romantic connections with men. So if you say, you know what? I'm 45, I've had my kids, and I'm done. Fine. Okay. Or, I'm 75 and I'm done. Great. But to the degree that that opting out is code for, this makes me too anxious, I'm too fat, I'm too old, I'm too tired, I don't like any of those men anyway, all the good ones are taken, all that negativity...to those women I say, men hold up half the sky. They are really...
Luckily, there's no secret to heading off a potential seafood apocalypse: Simply fish more sustainably, allowing fish stocks time to recover between harvests, just as a forest might be managed for logging. To that end, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1995 created the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries, a voluntary guide to sustainable fishing - which means controlling illegal fishing, reducing excess fishing capacity and minimizing destructive practices like ghost fishing, when gear is left in the water after a ship departs, still killing sea life. If carried out, these guidelines could keep the world...
...Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia (UBC), the Federal University of Rio Grande and the World Wildlife Federation looked at fishing policies and practices from the 53 countries that account for 96% of the world's fish catch, to see how well they followed the FAO's code. The results were sobering for anyone who enjoys a tuna steak: 28 countries, accounting for 40% of the world's fish catch, completely failed to follow the code. Only six countries had compliance scores above 60% - top performers were Norway and the U.S. - yet even these leaders failed to adhere...
That's the sort of attitude that needs to be brought to bear on global fishery management, lest wild fish disappear from our menu. The FAO code is valuable in principle, an excellent guide to a more sustainable fishing industry, but it's voluntary and lacks the teeth needed to save the world's fisheries. Of course, the very global nature of fishing, which often takes place outside any single nation's territory, makes it a classic tragedy of the commons. It's to the individual profit of any one fisherman, or any one nation, to keep fishing as long...
...standard. Finally, this wave of scandals is the most recent manifestation of an inefficiently complex and bloated tax system. According to the IRS, more than 60 percent of Americans use professional help to prepare their income-tax returns. A convoluted system of deductions, rules, and exceptions, the U.S. tax code takes more than 66,000 pages to explain. Chris Edwards, a director of fiscal policy at the Cato Institute, remarked that just complying with the current tax system costs the nation around 2 percent of its GDP. In light of these recent examples and as part of larger economic reforms...